| Artificial darkness: An obscure history of modern art and media NM Elcott University of Chicago Press, 2020 | 131 | 2020 |
| The Phantasmagoric Dispositif: An Assembly of Bodies and Images in Real Time and Space. NM Elcott Grey Room 62, 2016 | 24 | 2016 |
| Tattered snapshots and castaway tongues: An essay at layout and translation with WG Sebald NM Elcott The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 79 (3), 203-223, 2004 | 24 | 2004 |
| Rooms of Our Time: László Moholy-Nagy and the Stillbirth of Multi-Media Museums NM Elcott Screen/Space: The Projected Image in Contemporary Art, 25-52, 2011 | 20 | 2011 |
| Darkened Rooms: A Genealogy of Avant-Garde Filmstrips from Man Ray to the London Film-Makers' Co-op and Back Again NM Elcott Grey Room, 6-37, 2008 | 16 | 2008 |
| Into the dark chamber: Avant-garde photograms and the cinematic imaginary NM Elcott Princeton University, 2009 | 13 | 2009 |
| 11. The Phantasmagoric Dispositif: An Assembly of Bodies and Images in Real Time and Space NM Elcott Screen Space Reconfigured, 283, 2020 | 10 | 2020 |
| Imponderable: the archives of Tony Oursler T Eccles, M Hoffmann, B Ruf, P Lamont, T Gunning, C Turner, S O’Rourke, ... Critique d’art, Catalogues monographiques, 2016 | 9 | 2016 |
| In search of lost space: Stan Douglas's archaeology of cinematic darkness NM Elcott October 139, 151-182, 2012 | 8 | 2012 |
| The cinematic imaginary and the photographic fact: Media as models for 20th century art NM Elcott PhotoResearcher: ESHPh European Society for the History of Photography 29, 7-23, 2018 | 7 | 2018 |
| THE SHADOW OF THE WORLD: JAMES WELLING'S CAMERALESS AND ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY NM Elcott Aperture, 30-39, 2008 | 6 | 2008 |
| Raum der Gegenwart (Room of Our Time), by Schirn Kunsthalle NM Elcott Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 69 (2), 265-269, 2010 | 5 | 2010 |
| Hiraki Sawa at James Cohan Gallery N Elcott Tema Celeste, 8-14, 2006 | 5 | 2006 |
| A brief history of artificial darkness and race NM Elcott Rethinking Darkness, 61-76, 2020 | 4 | 2020 |
| 11. Material. Human. Divine. Notes on the Vertical Screen NM Elcott Screen Genealogies, 293, 2019 | 3 | 2019 |
| ‘Kaleidoscope-Architecture’: Scheerbart, Taut, and the Glass House N Elcott Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! A Paul Scheerbart Reader, 111-17, 0 | 3 | |
| Anthony McCall: five minutes of pure pculpture:[... erscheint anlässlich der Ausstellung'Anthony McCall: Five Minutes of Pure Scuplture'in der Nationalgalerie im Hamburger … A McCall, NM Elcott, Hamburger Bahnhof-Museum für Gegenwart Berlin, ... König, 2012 | 2 | 2012 |
| The Raum der Gegenwart (Re) constructed NM Elcott Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 69 (2), 265, 2010 | 2 | 2010 |
| The Manufacturer's Signature: Trademarks and Other Signs of Authenticity on Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergère NM Elcott Grey Room, 114-163, 2024 | 1 | 2024 |
| Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Andrea Rosen Gallery NM Elcott Artforum International 53 (9), 374-376, 2015 | 1 | 2015 |